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From: rjd@dell.dell.com (Randy Davis)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: What does "VME" (as in VMS Bus) stand for?
Summary: Wrong....  Corrected...
Message-ID: <5707@dell.dell.com>
Date: 22 Feb 90 21:53:57 GMT
References: <20387@netnews.upenn.edu> <1990Feb21.061101.754@sj.ate.slb.com>
Reply-To: rjd@dell.UUCP (Randy Davis, )
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In article <1990Feb21.061101.754@sj.ate.slb.com> grimesg@sj.ate.slb.com (George Grimes) writes:
|In article <20387@netnews.upenn.edu> tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Anthony Olejnik) writes:
|>I think its stands for Versa M????? Euro Bus (a cross between
|>a Versa (??) bus and an Euro (??) >Any help would be appreciated.
|
|According to a book on VME that I just got it stands for
|
|V M E
|e o u
|r d r
|a u o
|b l c
|u e a
|s s r
|    d

    Strange....  All the literature I have seen on the subject says that VME
stands for "Versa Modulo Europa"....  Just *where* did they say it was this
strange interpretation?

Randy Davis						UUCP: dell.dell.com!rjd